Pirate Ship

Within the Great Sphere, Captain Aventurine Bana finds herself the centerpoint in a vast conspiracy. A struggling transporter on the edges of society, ‘Gem’ Bana is given a fantastic opportunity: take the estranged son of a powerful businessman around the Sphere, and receive a beautiful new ship in exchange. Quickly caught in a tangle of intrigue, danger, and the looming threat of some outside puppeteer, Bana must navigate the Great Sphere with dry wit, abject terror, and a cool head. Dodging bounties, assassins, and the reach of a Sphere-wide corporation, all she wanted was a good book...

Meet Shivers, the scaredy-est pirate to ever sail the Seven Seas. Along with his best friend Margo, and his loyal fishmate (yes, you read that correctly), Albee, Shivers battles a giant squid, discovers hidden treasures, and gets pooped on by a pigeon to save his parents from the clutches of evil. (Yep, that's right: evil!) You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll never eat snails again. So put on your pantaloons, batten down the hatches, and join Shivers on his first (but still very dangerous) adventure.

Love pirates? I love pirates. I really love pirates. I also really love scary stories about witches, ghosts, and other things that allegedly go “bump in the night”. So, it should not surprise anyone that I came up with a collection of scary pirate tales. What might surprise you is that some of these tales are loosely based on actual events with my own spin of superstition and shadow. Certainly, enjoy the tales for what they are; but, if you want to know where some of these rather frightening and disturbing plots came from, see the What’s Real and What Isn’t section in the back of ...

From the casinos of the wild west frontier-town Tylas to the dark reaches of the Muridon Belt, space rebel Jet Rusco and his misfit crew find trouble around every corner. Gangster Sharki is on their tail. Old enemies from Rusco’s past have finally caught up with him. The discovery of an ancient treasure sparks the beginnings of an all-out war in the Vala System. Can Rusco outwit his enemies and make peace with the tumultuous past? The fate of the solar system hinges on the part he plays… A gritty odyssey to faraway worlds... Other books in the Starship Rogue series: Star Runaway Star ...

The Silver Knight Alex and crew capture a multimillion-dollar sailing yacht and hold it for ransom. The wife and daughter of well-known billionaire Victor Spartos are held as collateral while Alex negotiates the ransom. Spartos refuses to meet the demands and Alex resorts to other measures to make him comply. Mouth of the Dragon While smuggling humanitarian aid and medical supplies into Venezuela, Alex and Diego find a boat full of refugees trying to flee the horrors of Venezuela and sail to Trinidad for safety. The refugees are ill-prepared for the voyage as a storm threatens to overwhelm ...

Lauren Grayson has investigated Bigfoot, the Mayan apocalypse, even UFOs. But she never expected to find herself at the mercy of pirates… When the Oceanic Channel's newest research vessel, the Explorer of the Deep, goes missing on its maiden voyage to the Bermuda Triangle, television investigator Dr. Lauren Grayson and the Veritas Codex Crew are asked to investigate. Paired with oceanographer Trevor Thorpe and his crew from sister-show Expedition: Nautilus, they set off to find the network’s missing million-dollar ship. Soon after they embark, a mysterious storm descends and the ...

When Amelia and Bethany discover a mysterious book in the Magic Library, they’re whisked away to the bustling shores of 1722 Bermuda, a place teeming with daring sailors, hidden treasures, and swashbuckling secrets. As they navigate between the Royal Navy and the world of pirates, the sisters learn what it truly means to be brave, resourceful, and loyal. With historical intrigue and thrilling encounters on the high seas, The Magic Library: Pirate Hunters is a treasure trove of adventure that young readers won’t soon forget.

Architect Jonathan West is on a big project when he learns his wife, Patrice, has been unfaithful. On a fishing trip in North Carolina’s Outer Banks, he’s wondering what to do about his marriage when he sees a ghost ship. On it is a spectral woman, gazing at him with a plea in her eyes. Jonathan buys a house on the beach near the sighting and finds an old sea chest washed up there. Its contents, which include a miniature portrait, reveal it belonged to Kate Russell, captain of the Royal Thomas, which sank in 1721. It’s the same woman Jonathan saw on the ghost ship, and her journal ...

Aric Athair is dead. But the fight for the Bullet Seas is far from over. Caledonia's nemesis, Lir - the one responsible for getting her parents killed and for turning her brother into a Bullet - has seized control of the warlord's army. Caledonia and her crew have fled to Cloudbreak to prepare for an all-out war. And they are not the only ones. Defecting soldiers begin to show up in droves to join their fight. But just as it seems like the tides might be turning, a surprise attack decimates the growing rebellion.

Husband-and-wife treasure-hunting team Sam and Remi Fargo have gone on impossible missions before and faced many perils, but never have they faced an adversary as determined as the one before them now. The battle will take them halfway around the world and at its end will be either one of the most glorious finds in history - or certain death.

Orphaned Amanda Kirasdotr is a sailor on the lost planet Goddard. When she rescues a visiting starfarer from drowning, her reward is a trip into orbit. Now she wants to go there again, not easy when the hottest ship on Goddard has three masts and a full set of sails. The shadowy Brotherhood of the Bell realizes that Amanda wants to bring that most dreaded of all menaces, change, to Goddard. They'll do absolutely anything to stop her. Amanda begins with her wits, her determination, and her dory Northstar. She's up against typhoons, pirates, assassins, financial bubbles, starfarer ultratech, ...

History and legend remember many pirate stories and captains - but until now not the true story about the pirate crew who seized the most valuable treasure hoard ever taken on the high seas! In the year 1721, a British pirate captain named John Taylor, accompanied by a French captain nicknamed The Buzzard, seized the richest single booty ever to come into pirate hands. The Diamond Ship follows the true journey of this band of unruly pirates, in a story which until now has lain buried for three centuries in odd pieces of parchment and random scraps of marine diaries.

This thrilling companion to Iain Lawrence's award-winning The Wreckers and The Smugglers plunges listeners into high-sea action and intrigue. After 17-year-old John Spencer sets out on his first voyage to foreign lands, he and his crew are wary when they come across a stranger named Horn rowing a lifeboat in the middle of nowhere. What is the man hiding?

Restless Tiger A Long short Story Alex and Diego are busy smuggling contraband north across the sea to Vietnam and Cambodia and bringing refugees south across the Gulf of Thailand in early 1998. They find that running a fleet of twelve boats is hard enough, but piracy is rampant on the water. They are also hijacking ships at sea to liberate them of their cargo and turn a profit. And then there is their old scourge, the Frenchman, back on the attack. They have to teach him a lesson and exact revenge for murdered crewmen in the last nasty sea encounter. But how? The third of a collection of ...

Hong Kong Takedown A Long Short Story Alex the Pirate and his business partner, Diego, set about establishing a legitimate business in Hong Kong to help them in their South China Sea smuggling and pirating endeavors. Alex has his eye on an insurance company that is in financial difficulty. The owner owns money to the triad and can’t pay. Alex meets a man in a card game who may hold the key to a hard takedown of the company and its owner. But they must navigate the choppy waters of Hong Kong’s underworld in a way that will curry favor in the right places and not get them killed by the ...

“Captain Drake! Captain Drake!” He looked up…it was Karina, even more beautiful in the moonlight, coming straight toward him with her arm extended and holding something shiny in her hand that he recognized as the missing gold cufflink. He increased his pace, and as he reached for the cufflink with his left hand, the touch ignited him with a sudden desire to feel her soft, full lips and, in one swift moment, wrapped his right arm around her waist, arching her back slightly as he covered her lips with his own, the arresting moment caused Karina to let out a small moan as she fell into ...

A band of pirates are about to hijack a cargo ship in the South China Sea. The ship is carrying valuable cargo and a dozen passengers on holiday. The pirates will resort to robbery, kidnapping, ransom and murder. Unknown to the pirates is that one of the passengers is Henry Olson. Henry is a martial expert and former Olympic champion on his way to compete in the 1995 Kumite world championships in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia. It’s now Henry against fifteen armed ruthless pirates! The action never stops! Barwell Hollings brings you this exciting sequel to Henry’s Challenge.

Seizing the Tiger It’s 1996 and Alex the Pirate hates having his smuggled goods ripped off on the high seas. Colonel Le, another pirate, got the drop on him and he is vastly outgunned in his wooden-hulled tongkang in the middle of the Gulf of Thailand. Le smirks as he steals Alex’s valuable cargo and powers away to leave Alex and crew drifting on their damaged craft at sea. Alex and his friend Diego know that vengeance is a dish best served cold. Le will pay for his treachery—the hard way. And maybe they will seize the cutthroat’s prize boat—the one they call the Tiger. The first ...

Follow the Paragon treasure hunters as they set out to find even more lost gold and silver. After finding more than they could possibly use in a lifetime, they opted to get their foundation up and running. Soon though corporate greed catches up with them and could end in disaster for the team. Will good triumph over evil once again? Or are they fated to lose everything including their lives.

Avast! Are ye' ready to sail the high seas with some of the world's most feared pirates? These accounts will do more than shiver your timbers. Come aboard to witness the ruthless methods of history's most petrifying pirates.